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“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”
― Paulo Freire

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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“When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.”
― Morgan Carroll, Take Back your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Change

tags: government, lobby, public-policy

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“Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.”
― Joel McDonald, AdWords For Dummies

tags: hypocrisy, narcicssist, narcissism

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“I sometimes worried I'd never experience that sense of wonder you feel meeting a new friend or traveling to a new place for the first time. I was afraid the major milestones of my life, marriage and childbirth, were past. Was it foolish to hope I still had something exciting ahead of me, something even important, that I could have a life of my own?”
― Lilly Ledbetter, Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

tags: hope, women

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